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Re:Put an end to people mispronouncing your name by quarterwave on Thursday July 03, 2014 @12:55PM (#7984214)
Several languages use compound nouns, proper and common. These cause pronunciation problems when the phrase is read atomically, instead of by parsing. For example, German armbunduhr is easily understood as arm+bund+uhr = clock around arm, or wrist watch. Since I speak languages that also build up compound nouns (e.g; chair = four+legs), I have no trouble recognizing the need to parse in other languages.
Re:Put an end to people mispronouncing your name by koesterd on Thursday July 03, 2014 @01:05PM (#7984272)
It's Armbanduhr, though. So it's more like Armband (wristband) and Uhr (clock). But your solution is at least equally clever! I never thought of that.